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Putin Confirms Scope Of Russian Military Role In Syria
Putin Confirms Scope Of Russian Military Role In Syria Over the past 48 hours or so, we’ve seen what certainly appears to be visual confirmation of a non-negligible Russian military presence in Syria. For anyone coming to the story late, overt Russian involvement would seem to suggest that the geopolitical “main event” (so to speak), […]
Future of War and Peace at Stake in Streets of Japan
Future of War and Peace at Stake in Streets of Japan The United States and its European allies have launched wars on the Middle East that have created an enormous refugee crisis. The same nations are threatening Russia. The question of maintaining peace with Iran is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Even in Asia […]
Fallout From Petrodollar Demise Continues As Qatar Borrows $4 Billion Amid Crude Slump
Fallout From Petrodollar Demise Continues As Qatar Borrows $4 Billion Amid Crude Slump Early last month in “Cash-Strapped Saudi Arabia Hopes To Continue War Against Shale With Fed’s Blessing,” we noted the irony inherent in the fact that Saudi Arabia, whose effort to bankrupt the US shale space has blown a giant hole in the […]
Counterterrorism “Success Story” Fails Completely As Yemen Set To Split Into Two Countries
Counterterrorism “Success Story” Fails Completely As Yemen Set To Split Into Two Countries Late last month, as the fighting in Yemen continued unabated, Jeff Prescott, the National Security Council’s Senior Director for the Middle East said “there is no military solution to the crisis.” Saudi Arabia seemingly disagrees and that will reportedly be one topic […]
NYT Claims U.S. Abides by Cluster Bomb Treaty: The Exact Opposite of Reality
NYT Claims U.S. Abides by Cluster Bomb Treaty: The Exact Opposite of Reality The New York Times today has a truly bizarre article regarding the U.S. and cluster bombs. The advocacy group Cluster Munition Coalition just issued its annual report finding that cluster bombs had been used in five countries this year: Syria, Libya, Yemen, Ukraine and Sudan. This is what The […]
Eurodystopia: A Future Divided
Eurodystopia: A Future Divided Image: dreamslayerartworks.comThis is a rerun of an article I wrote on August 10, 2012. It seems to have regained quite a bit of relevance in recent days. I was thinking earlier today, how can I write about finance when Europe continues to offend people’s, and humanity’s, most basic dignity the way […]
Exorbitant Privilege: “The Dollar is Our Currency but Your Problem”
Exorbitant Privilege: “The Dollar is Our Currency but Your Problem” The Global Monetary Architecture: Change is on the Horizon There is no better way to descibe the international monetary system today than through the statement made in 1971 by U.S. Treasury Secretary, John Connally. He said to his counterparts during a Rome G-10 meeting in […]
US/NATO Embrace Psy-ops and Info-War
US/NATO Embrace Psy-ops and Info-War Exclusive: The U.S. government and NATO have entered the Brave New World of “strategic communications,” merging psy-ops, propaganda and P.R. in order to manage the perceptions of Americans and the world’s public, reports veteran war correspondent Don North. As reflected in a recent NATO conference in Latvia and in the Pentagon’s […]
Russia Is Going To Pass A Law Formally Dumping The U.S. Dollar
Russia Is Going To Pass A Law Formally Dumping The U.S. Dollar Russian President Vladimir Putin has introduced legislation that would deal a tremendous blow to the U.S. dollar. If Putin gets his way, and he almost certainly will, the U.S. dollar will be eliminated from trade between nations that belong to the Commonwealth of […]
The Myth of a Russian ‘Threat’
The Myth of a Russian ‘Threat’ Not a week goes by without the Pentagon carping about an ominous Russian “threat”. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey entered certified Donald “known unknown” Rumsfeld territory when he recently tried to conceptualize the “threat”; “Threats are the combination, or the aggregate, of capabilities and intentions. Let me set aside for the moment, intentions, because I […]
Third Greek Bailout Suddenly In Jeopardy: Creditors Warn Cash May Be Delayed If Elections Don’t Go As Desired
Third Greek Bailout Suddenly In Jeopardy: Creditors Warn Cash May Be Delayed If Elections Don’t Go As Desired Just when everyone was convinced that the main “risk off” event of the summer, namely the Greek bailout, was safely tucked away and that having abdicated its sovereignty to its creditors and Germany in particular, who now […]
Ron Paul and Lost Lessons of War
Ron Paul and Lost Lessons of War Neocon dominance has grown so strong in Official Washington that old lessons about the hazards of ill-considered wars are forgotten and must be painfully relearned, a message from Ron Paul’s new book, Swords into Plowshares, as described by retired JAG Major Todd E. Pierce. Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul lays […]
Russian Military Forces Arrive In Syria, Set Forward Operating Base Near Damascus
Russian Military Forces Arrive In Syria, Set Forward Operating Base Near Damascus While military direct intervention by US, Turkish, and Gulf forces over Syrian soil escalates with every passing day, even as Islamic State forces capture increasingly more sovereign territory, in the central part of the country, the Nusra Front dominant in the northwestern region […]
Unusually Massive Protests Erupt in Japan Against Forthcoming “War Legislation”
Unusually Massive Protests Erupt in Japan Against Forthcoming “War Legislation” In case you aren’t up to speed on your Japanese history, the nation’s post WWII Constitution prohibits military action unless it’s in self-defense. Clearly a sensible approach, which is why the current Japanese government, led by the demonstrably insane and incompetent Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, wants […]
Ukraine Reignites – 50 Injured After Grenade Attack On Parliament
Ukraine Reignites – 50 Injured After Grenade Attack On Parliament Amid the Ukraine government’s vote for constitutional changes to give its eastern regions a special status(that it hopes will blunt their separatist drive) protests have turned deadly as RT reports 50 Ukrainian nation guards have been injured in a greande blast near parliament in Kiev. The clashes began […]
